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Test data may indicate that the size of test machine is adequate for the duty envisaged. Alternatively, the machine tested would be too big, which is not usual. More usually the test data have to be scaled to a larger size of decanter. When the data need to be scaled to another decanter size, other calculations may need to be performed for each run, such as conveyor torque/volume, feed rate/Sigma, wet solids rate/conveyor differential speed, as well as the Sigma value itself if the data involve changes of bowl speed. As will be seen, these intermediate calculations help with the scale-up. 

We will quote a numerical constant in some of these equations to help with actual calculations. The units can be very confusing because it is conventional to use non-SI units for several quantities. The wavenumber value, i>, is usually taken to be in cm The extinction coefficient is conveniently taken in units of 1 moH ... 

Perform the IRC calculation (requested with the IRC keyword). This job will help you to verify that you have the correct transition state for the reaction when you examine the structures that are downhill from the saddle point. In some cases, however, you will need to increase the number of steps taken in the IRC in order to get closer to the minimum the AAoxPoinb option specifies the number of steps to take in each direction as its argument. You can also continue an IRC calculation by using the lRC=(ReStorhMaxPointe=n) keyword, setting n to some appropriate value (provided, of course, that you have saved the checkpoint file). 

As noted in Section 6.2, it usually helps with compounds of known formula but unknown structure to calculate the compound s degree of unsaturation. In the present instance, a formula of C4H10O corresponds to a saturated, open-chain molecule. 

The above methodology has been extremely useful for the synthesis of a variety of INOC precursors. For instance, treatment of 0-trimethylsilyl a-bro-moaldoximes 52b, e, f with F ion in presence of unsaturated alcohols 57 produces oximino ethers 58 which can be readily oxidized using NaOCl (Scheme 8) [29]. The transient nitrile oxide intermediates formed undergo spontaneous cyclization to fused isoxazolines 59. The preferred stereoisomer in the formation of the five-membered ring ethers is trans whereas in the six-membered ring ethers the cis isomer predominates (see Table 5). MM2 calculations helped rationalize the experimentally observed stereoselectivites (see Table 5). 

In order to calculate LEL use the lowest value obtained from one of the two estimations by Hilado or the variant. For AIT use the lowest value obtained either by using the author s source or by calculating it with the help of additivity rules. 

The parameters used in the IPM are presented in Table 4.16 and Table 4.17. In these tables, the additional parameters for the reactions of hydroperoxides with molecules and free radicals are given. The reactions of hydroperoxide with free radicals are important for the chain processes of the decomposition of hydroperoxides (see later). The results of the calculation of rate constants of various hydroperoxide reactions are collected in Tables 4.18-4.21. The comparison of the calculated values with the experimental values helped to introduce a few corrections in the traditional view on the bimolecular reactions of hydroperoxides. 

The accurate spatial location of these atoms generally needs a sophisticated approach, for example, the study of a complete deuterated set of isotopic derivatives in microwave spectroscopy or the use of neutron diffraction techniques. We shall see below that a set of CNDO/2 calculations combined with suitable experiments (microwave spectroscopy and/or electron diffraction) may help to solve the geometrical and conformational analysis of compounds containing many hydrogen atoms. 

Comparisons of Arrhenius and WLF have not been found in the literature. Rapra experience of using both is that, although Arrhenius is mathematically simpler, with computer help WLF is easier because of there being no need to specify a measure of reaction rate nor to make any assumptions when interpolating between points. The WLF approach is also more versatile in that it is relatively easy to produce predictions in terms of time to reach an end point and as change in a given time. With Arrhenius this necessitates re-doing the calculation completely with a different measure of reaction rate. 

The author wishes to express his gratitude to Mr Klaus Kowski for recording PE spectra and his technical assistance in the preparation of the manuscript. He is grateful to Dr Hubert Kuhn for assistance with OVGF calculations and to Mr W. Sicking for his help with MO plots. Financial support by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie is gratefully acknowledged. 

Research described in this chapter has received support from the National Science Foundation and from the donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society. Collaboration with Prof. Terrance McMahon has been indispensable to the evolution of our ideas about ZTRID. We are grateful to Prof. Stephen Klippenstein for help with PST calculations. We thank Prof. Helmut Schwarz and the other authors of Ref 52 for communicating ab initio results and prepublication data. 

The above series of calculations helps demonstrate that all types of topology of phase diagrams involving simple liquid and solid solutions can be calculated within the same simple framework, and diagrams with increasing complexity, i.e., increasing number of phases, compounds, allotropic changes in the elements, etc., can also be routinely handled. 

Applying the Zn/Cu reduction to C q the reduction proceeds to a greater extent than the reaction with Cjq did [5, 7, 21, 25, 26]. Some distinct isomers of C qH with n = 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 can be isolated. C7QHJ2 is formed, but only in small amounts and was not yet separated. HPLC, H, C and He NMR spectroscopy together with calculations helped to resolve the structure of the obtained hydro-[70]fullerenes. The reduction proceeds in different possible pathways [21]. One of these reduction manifolds leads - besides some minor isomers - to the two major isomers of C qH with n = 2 (9) and n = 4 (10-12), where the hydrogens are - as expected - located at the poles of C q (Table 5.1). The other manifold leads to the adduct C7oHg (13) with a completely different addition pattern, where the hydrogens... 

The solutions of a diffusion equation under the transient case (non-steady state) are often some special functions. The values of these functions, much like the exponential function or the trigonometric functions, cannot be calculated simply with a piece of paper and a pencil, not even with a calculator, but have to be calculated with a simple computer program (such as a spreadsheet program, but see later comments for practical help). Nevertheless, the values of these functions have been tabulated, and are now easily available with a spreadsheet program. The properties of these functions have been studied in great detail, again much like the exponential function and the trigonometric functions. One such function encountered often in one-dimensional diffusion problems is the error function, erf(z). The error function erf(z) is defined by... 

The friction kernel gs(t) is calculated and with the help of Eqs. (42)-(43) the coupling y(s) is obtained. Then one solves for the Hamiltonian Eq. (36) to obtain the effective Grote-Hynes rate. 

The parameters X, X, X2,X are determined hy four especially chosen reference points. The energies of the states of Li-like ions were calculated twice with the real value of the fine structure constant a = 1/137 and with the smaller value a = a/lOOO. The results of these latter calculations were considered as non-relativistic. This helped the isolation of Ej and. A detailed evaluation of their accuracy may be made only after a complete calculation of Z,nlj). It may be stated that the above extrapolation... 

There are several ways of identifying whether a compound is an acid or a base, depending on what it does with protons and electrons pH and pOH calculations, along with the values of dissociation constants K and /CJ, can help chemists determine the properties of these acids and bases. 

The elucidation of the crystal structures of polymers from their x-ray diffraction patterns is frequently a difficult and laborious task. The work usually proceeds by trial and error methods in which calculated intensities for likely structures are compared with the observed intensities of diffraction spots. Furthermore, x-ray fibre photographs often contain relatively few reflections and it is always possible that more than one structure may give a reasonable fit with the observed intensity data. Additional information which can be obtained from infrared spectra can often provide considerable help with both these difficulties and in particular many trial structures can be eliminated without recourse to time-consuming calculations of x-ray intensities. 

Steps 1 and 6 are the heart of the problem. Guessing what chemical equilibria exist in a given solution requires a fair degree of chemical intuition. In this book, you will usually be given help with step 1. Unless we know all the relevant equilibria, it is not possible to calculate the composition of a solution correctly. Because we do not know all the chemical reactions, we undoubtedly oversimplify many equilibrium problems. 

Calculations [36] with the help of the Monte Carlo method, have shown (see, for example, Fig. 2) that, in the case most unfavourable for the theory, n(0) = A1(0), eqns. (27) describe the kinetics of electron tunneling at 50 and 80% of reagents decay with an accuracy of 2 and 4%, respectively [that is, 2% of the initial concentration, n(0) = 7V(0)]. Thus, eqns. (27) give a quantitative description of the kinetics of electron tunneling reactions up to a decay of 80%. 

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